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...Athletics are secondary or should be," said Edward Duffey, editor of "The Dartmouth" and football player, in a telegram to the Boston Evening American last night, explaining the militant stand on football adopted by the delegates to the recent Wesleyan Conference. The text in full follows...
...agreement drawn up and approved yesterday by student-delegates from twenty-three colleges to the Inter-collegiate Parley on Education at Wesleyan University is the most significant development that has yet occurred in the movement to reduce the emphasis upon college football. It is now evident that the movement is of no merely local or sectional interest, but is a national reaction of college students against the existing maladjustment between athletics and scholarship...
...salient points of the Wesleyan agreement are published elsewhere in this issue. When they are considered together with what has already appeared in these columns on the subject, it seems unnecessary to add that the CRIMSON is in thorough accord with the purpose which brought forth this effort to restore harmony between college football and college studies...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, speaking Saturday night at the intercollegiate parley on education in session at Wesleyan University, advocated the total abolition of the lecture system in colleges. Colleges in America, he said, have developed under difficult external conditions, but he believed that perceptible progress had been made. He asserted that the lecture system forces all the work on the teacher and enslaves the minds of both teacher and student. Under the lecture system, the college is not teaching; it is merely instructing. Again speaking of the colleges he said, "They treat students as children. A young...
Amherst 27, Wesleyan...